Some Clients Are Just Not Meant To Work With Ian Watt And Vice Versa

Blog by Ian Watt | March 21st, 2011

Vancouver Condo Real Estate Video Blog #648 - March 21, 2011

Some Clients Are Just Not Meant To Work With Ian Watt And Vice Versa

Ian Watt video blogs about how there are 10,000 realtors in the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver and finding the right realtor for you is like finding a doctor or a hairdresser you need to find someone who has the skills, you feel confident in, and who can ultimately get the job done for you. If you want to voice your opinion or if you don't care for Ian's comments please email your feedback to ianwatt@ianwatt.ca and visit http://www.ianwatt.ca/RealEstateVideos for all the Ian Watt Real Estate Video Blogs. Please note that opinions, real estate practices, prices and data always changes over time, so please keep in mind the date when this video was published as the information could have become irrelevant over the past days, months and years.

Ian Watt: Hi good afternoon it's Ian Watt
in Downtown Vancouver. I've got about firing clients before being fired
before. However I think it's something that we should all think about
when hiring a realtor. There's 10,000 realtors in the Greater Vancouver
Real Estate Board and that's not including the Fraser Valley. I think, I
think I was told there was almost 17,000 in the province. Nonetheless,
there a lot of choices out there for realtors and I was think that
finding a realtors kind a like finding a doctor or a hair dresser it's
got to be someone you know you have confidence in and somebody who get
along with and somebody you trust and I think those things are very
important when your finding a realtor cause there's so many realtors out
there and they have all different styles. Now I had a client and a
little bit of a problematic client and she kept even on the listing she
ex out a whole bunch of staff on the listing contract that she didn't
like however this listing contract is prepared by the Real Estate Board
of Greater Vancouver and all their lawyers as well. So we can't really x
out anything because all those closes in there to protect the buyer,
the seller, the real estate offices and the realtors as well. So it's
all put in there and then we can fill in the blanks and alter a few
things and add to it but we can't really subtract to it I'm not gonna
work under contract that leads me vulnerable as well. And I'm not saying
it's a privilege to work with me but I'm saying everyone's got a
respect everybody so she's started x'ing things out on the listing red
flag, new something that gonna go wrong from there on and then when
offers came in she kept changing things without consulting with me her
realtor. And I'm representing her, I'm defending her. She changed all
this different things. She's not a lawyer, she's not a realtor so I
don't know why she thinks she should change all this without talking to
me. It's very important that two people on the same team are on the same
page. So she's done this and it looks like we've lost this offer
because of all this extra information she added which didn't really make
sense what so ever and confused the buyer and the buyer's realtor as
well we tried to cross it out I said you know this is the way it is. But
eventually we got to a point were I just had to say here it is here's
the cancellation obviously we can't work together and that's very
important. It's important that we be true to ourselves and be true to
our clients. If I cannot work with this person I'm not gonna do a great
job for them so I offer them the opportunity to fire me. And that's what
happens we have to be on the same page or somebody's gonna lose a lot
of money. My name is Ian Watt and if you have any questions. You can
always email me at ianwatt@ianwatt.ca. Thank you very much and have a great day!